Authorities arrested a 14-year-old Harlem boy Thursday after he accidentally shot a 13-year-old girl in the face inside a Harlem home.

At about 4 p.m., investigators responded to 145 Keener St., near downtown Harlem. The victim, Ellie Kelly, of the 6200 block of Otis Way in Harlem, was found shot once in the face while three other people were inside the one-story brick home, Columbia County sheriff’s Capt. Steve Morris said.

The day after a Thomson Police Department captain said the agency would defer any prosecution to Columbia County, the chief is asking the Georgia Bureau of Investigation to enter the investigation of a teacher accused of having sex with a Harlem High School student at his Thomson home.

The GBI is being asked to help because of the “multi-jurisdictional” nature of the allegations against former Harlem Junior ROTC teacher Mitchell Sivas, Thomson Police Chief Joe Nelson said in a news release.

WRENS, Ga. — A Spanish teacher at Jefferson High School died Tuesday night when she drove her car into the path of another vehicle.

Heidi Benstead Hernandez, 28, of Evans, was traveling north on Campground Road outside Wrens about 6:30 p.m. Tuesday when she stopped at U.S. Highway 80, said Georgia State Patrolt Trooper 1st Class Gerald Lyles.

“From what I saw and from what the deputies told me, she did come to a complete stop and looked both ways … probably and didn’t see the vehicle and pulled out,” the trooper said.